1997 Movies

Everyone can play the Lottery but can you live to collect if you win?

When a sarcophagus, sent by Jeff's Egyptologist father, arrives at the family home, his sister Kim decides to take a look inside. This proves...

Documentary about the making and distribution of Al Festa's film "Fatal Frames".

It is the history of a group of boys around twenty years old of the suburban district. They stroll for the quarter, look at videos, listen to rock....

Marsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island, but their yacht is hijacked by pirates,...

Musicians, producers, family, colleagues and the artist himself look back on the making of Stevie Wonders's classic album "Song In the Key of Life".

Italian immigrant Joe is hired by mobster Vince to kill a witness before he can testify against him. Joe dresses up as a policeman to be able to get...

A romantic comedy about the first of a tight group of friends to get married.

Pakistani Film.

In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence...

Dane Corvin (Chamberlain) returns to Raven Island where 20 years before he and Helen Raven (Allen) had fallen in love. She vowed never to see him...

Idea approaches the figure of Idea Vilariño, considered as one of the greatest Spanish-language female poets. Her literary work, especially...

"Portraits and excerpts from Brazilian films from all times. Actors, directors and images that affirm cinema."

Behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown exists a harsh reality. Lolita is a streetwalker hustling for business on Hollywood Blvd. Julie is a...

A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.

The story of a Jinn who tried to get back his child.

Teenage Zoe Tyler suffers from manic-depression. With a musician father who is never around life seems hard. Zoe eventually lands up in a psychiatric...

The Earthship ISS Galant Fox, while heading back home to earth, encounters an alien spacecraft adrift in deep space. When efforts to establish...

Animated short.

Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket...

A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997...

A collection of goals, action, victories and interviews highlighting the amazing feat of Rangers winning nine Championships in a row between 1988 and...

On 17th April 1961, an invasion force of over 1,200 Cuban exiles - trained, financed, equipped and directed by the US CIA - launched an amphibious...

Formed in 1975 from the remnants of a British blues band and a California soft-rock duo, Fleetwood Mac evolved into one of the most successful...

A group of teenagers come together to indulge in that great Canadian pastime, the house-party, and find themselves literally confined to the kitchen...

A sixteen-year-old boy, who had thought that his father's death was an accident, suspects otherwise when he receives a ten-year-old lost letter his...

When a man's wife dies, the new executive of his company makes a move. Though they know that sexual relations could cause problems, that does not...

A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel...

A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.

A highly evocative fable of the flaws of human ambition. It starts with a stormy debate between a man and his conscience. Torn between a rational...

An anthology of 10 stories depicting real-life incidents of subway riders in New York City, which range from compassion and love to violence and loss.

Lilith Fair made rock and roll history in the summer of 1997 as the first all-female music tour. These sold-out concert performances could only be...

The sound of a heartbeat pumps life into Linear Dreams, a scratch animation film that moves from the simple lines of the unconscious to...

When a young couple buys a contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much...

A man loses his bank job and is drawn into the world of rituals where the only way for him is by taking the life of another.

An adaptation of Connie May Fowler's 1996 novel tracing the unlikely friendship between a young white girl, daughter of an alcoholic mother and a...

Already suffering fiscal and emotional bankruptcy after a car crash shatters his life, young Van finds himself in a vacuum when his buddies go off to...

After twenty years of absence, the filmmaker returns to his home town of Ras Baalbeck, Lebanon to remember the life of his grandfather, who had moved...

Making of documentary.

Historical post-war drama about memory, trauma, and the complex reality of wartime heroism. It is adapted from the novel Le Compagnon secret by...